Atletico Madrid vs Deportivo La Coruna — La Liga: stats, lineups & analysis
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- Half-time
- 46′Atletico Madrid, substitution:off
- 46′Atletico Madrid, substitution:off
- 48′Atletico Madrid, goal:1–0assist
- 58′Deportivo La Coruna, substitution:off
- 58′Deportivo La Coruna, substitution:off
- 67′Atletico Madrid, substitution:off
- 75′Deportivo La Coruna, yellow card:
- 79′Deportivo La Coruna, yellow card:
- 80′Deportivo La Coruna, substitution:off
- 80′Deportivo La Coruna, substitution:off
- 80′Atletico Madrid, substitution:off
- 84′Deportivo La Coruna, substitution:off
- 85′Atletico Madrid, yellow card:
- 86′Atletico Madrid, yellow card:
- 87′Atletico Madrid, yellow card:
- 90+5′Deportivo La Coruna, yellow card:
- Full-time1 – 0
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Match report
Atletico Madrid edge Deportivo La Coruna through Álvarez's second-half goal
Atletico Madrid beat Deportivo La Coruna 1-0 at Riyadh Air Metropolitano in La Liga on Matchday 10, a single second-half goal separating the sides after a goalless first half. The result lifted Diego Simeone's team to 25 points from 10 games, keeping them second in the table.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The breakthrough came three minutes after the restart. Álex Grimaldo supplied the assist and Julián Álvarez finished to make it 1-0 in the 48th minute. It proved the only goal of a match in which Atletico controlled the ball, finishing with 56 per cent possession and taking 20 shots to 15.
Deportivo La Coruna, managed by Antonio Hidalgo, were more accurate than their hosts, putting five shots on target to four, and their expected goals figure of 2.02 was higher than Atletico's 1.44. They found no equaliser, however, and stay tenth on 11 points, now without a win in six games. Atletico are unbeaten in eight.
Deportivo La Coruna return to action on Thursday away to Auriense in the Copa del Rey, while Atletico travel to Levante in La Liga on Saturday.
Álvarez scored the only goal and earned the match's top rating of 8.25. Grimaldo, who set the goal up, was next on 7.66, with Jan Oblak rated 7.59 in goal.
Deportivo La Coruna managed five shots on target to Atletico's four despite having less of the ball.
Atletico Madrid beat Deportivo La Coruna 1–0 (half-time 0–0).
Atletico Madrid met Deportivo La Coruna in the La Liga (Regular Season - 10). Kick-off was Saturday, 24 October 2026, 19:00 UTC at Riyadh Air Metropolitano. Referee: Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez. Attendance: 68,674.
Team pages: Atletico Madrid · Deportivo La Coruna · La Liga
Key moments
- 48' Goal: Julián Álvarez (assist: Álex Grimaldo) — 1–0 · Watch Julián Álvarez's goal video (48')
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Atletico Madrid (4-3-3)
Deportivo La Coruna (5-3-2)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Atletico Madrid 76%, the draw 18%, Deportivo La Coruna 6%. It finished Atletico Madrid 1–0 Deportivo La Coruna.
Strength gap makes Atletico Madrid strong favourites — We give Atletico Madrid 76% mainly because our strength rating has them 273 points higher, 1869 to 1596, and home sides in La Liga generally do better than the global norm, which adds a little more. The draw sits at 18%, close to the usual rate of about 18.5% for a strength gap this size.
Why Atletico Madrid at 76%?
Atletico Madrid sit 273 points higher on our strength rating — 1869 to 1596. Sides with a more than 240-point rating edge at home won 79.6% of 5,955 such games. La Liga home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (28.3% vs 30.0%). La Liga homes won 46.6% of 6,170 games vs 44.6% across all 107,859 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. The 300 most similar past games finished 72–20–8.
Why not higher?
No scored evidence points the other way. 76% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 18% and Deportivo La Coruna at 6%.
Why is the draw only 18%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 18.5%. These teams' recent games average 2.8 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 24.8% of 27,159.
What did we measure but not count?
Atletico Madrid have averaged 12 percentage points more possession than Deportivo La Coruna in recent games. That doesn’t change our forecast here. Deportivo La Coruna are newly promoted — game 10 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides are said to struggle, but our rating already carries most of it: across 3,012 first-ten games since 2016 they won 26.8% where the rating expected 28.1% — inside the noise band, below it in six of the ten full seasons we hold and about level last season. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
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